Sensitive Objects: Affects and Material Culture

Frykman, Jonas (Editor)/ Frykman, Maja Povrzanovic (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9187675668 / ISBN 13: 9789187675669

Published by Nordic Academic Pr, 2016

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285 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sensitive Objects: Affects and Material Culture
• Publisher: Nordic Academic Pr
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9187675668
• ISBN 13: 9789187675669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.59 kilograms

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Synopsis

Some objects seem especially personal and important to us - be it a quickly packed suitcase, an inherited vase, or a photograph. In Sensitive Objects the authors discuss when, how, and why particular objects appear as 'sensitive'. They do so by analyzing the objects' affective charging in the context of historically embedded practices. Sensitive Objects is a contribution to the upcoming field of 'affect research' that has so far been dominated by psychology and cultural studies, and the authors examine the potential for epistemic gain by connecting the studies of affect with the studies of material culture. The contributors, predominantly ethnologists and anthropologists, use fieldwork to examine how people project affects onto material objects and explore how objects embody or trigger affects and produce affective atmospheres.

About the Author

Jonas Frykman is a professor of European ethnology at Lund University, Sweden.

Maja Povrzanovic Frykman is professor of ethnology and teaches at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. She is also acting as part-time senior researcher at Agderforskning, Kristiansand, Norway. Her main research interests are war-related experiences, diaspora and transnational practices, highly skilled migrants, place, ethnicity and material culture.